by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 4, 2019 | Scam of the day
Child identity theft has become a big problem in recent years. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, a million American children became victims of identity theft last year at a cost of 2.6 billion dollars in total losses to the families. Children are prime...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Mar 16, 2019 | Scam of the day
I have been telling you about credit freezes for children since last September when a new federal law went into effect that permits consumers to freeze and unfreeze their credit reports for free. You can now freeze and unfreeze your credit at each of the major credit...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 29, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
Atrium Health, which operates 44 hospitals in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia suffered a data breach between September 22 and September 29, 2018 which has just been discovered. The data breach resulted in significant amount of personal information of 2.65...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 25, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
I initially reported to you in 2014 that the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was hacked by Chinese hackers who stole personal information of what we now know is 20 million federal employees, retirees and their family members. We later learned that the...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 19, 2018 | Scam of the day, Uncategorized
It shouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that protection of employees’ personal data is important. However, Unfortunately the rocket scientists have not quite figured this out yet as an internal memo just sent to NASA employees notified them that...
